Edward Ford Family Papers

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Edward Ford Family Papers

1907-1947

https://archivesspace.cmog.org/repositories/3/resources/33

The Edward Ford Family Papers, 1907-1947, consist of correspondence, financial records, house construction records, and ephemera. Most items are sorted chronologically, although financial records are in alphabetical order, as the original owner filed them. Family correspondence includes many letters from Edward Ford’s grandson George Ross Ford Jr. to his family from boarding school and from later years of his life, as well as a few letters from George’s teachers to his parents and several of his report cards. There are a number of financial records of George Ross Ford Jr., such as receipts for personal purchases, and some banking statements. A significant amount of material pertains to the construction and contracting of George Ross Ford Jr.’s family home and includes. a blueprint for the home. Interesting ephemera in the collection includes a homemade book that appears to be for a child named Nancy, a blueprint for an unidentified lot, and a dime savings bank book, among other items.

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Corning Museum of Glass. Rakow Research Library

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Corning Museum of Glass. Rakow Research Library

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Ford (Pittsburgh, Penn. : Toledo, Ohio : 1811-1967)

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The Ford family was an important force in the American manufacture of plate glass. In 1869, John B. Ford opened the family's first glass factory in New Albany, Indiana. A second factory in Creighton, Pennsylvania grew to become the Pittsburgh Plate Glass. John B. Ford's son, Edward Ford, founded the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company in Rossford, Ohio. After Edward Ford's death in 1920, George Ross Ford, Sr. took over leadership of the Edward Ford Plate Glass Compan. That company merged with the Li...

Ford, George Ross, Jr., 1908-1967

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George Ross Ford, Jr. was the son of George Ross Ford, Sr., who led the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company from 1920 until its merger with Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company in 1930. George Ross Ford, Jr. served as a director of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, as well as a president and chairman of Rossford Savings Bank and a director of First National Bank of Toledo. ...

Ford, George Ross, Sr., 1882-1938

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George Ross Ford, Sr. was the son of Edward Ford, founder of the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company. He assumed the presidency of the company in 1920, when his father died, and served in this role until its merger with the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company in 1930. After the merger, he served as a vice president of Libbey-Owens-Ford Company....

Edward Ford Plate Glass Company

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During the 1860s entrepreneur John B. Ford developed interest in an area of glass manufacturing where no American glass company had gone before: plate glass. In the United States at the time of the 1860s all polished plate glass was being imported from Europe. There was neither equipment nor skilled technicians in the U.S. to produce plate glass. Captain Ford, aware of the competition in glass bottle and window production, made the move to import plate glass making equipment and technicians fro...

Ford, Edward, 1843-1920

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In 1869, the first American plate glass factory was formed by John B. Ford in New Albany, Indiana, with help from his sons Emory and Edward. In 1880, Edward and Emory built a plate glass factory in Creighton, Pennsylvania. This plate glass factory would be reorganized and renamed as the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Factory. After Captain Ford sold the family business in 1897, son Edward continued to pursue his passion for glassmaking and built the Ford Plate Glass Company in Rossford, Ohio. The Edward...